Yes Man!

Recently, we went to see the movie "Yes Man." While some parts were unnessesarily crude, overall, I actually enjoyed it. I appreciated what I saw as the "take home message"-- Live your life being open to new opportunities and adventures, while also knowing when it would be adventageous to say "No". It inspired me to write a list of things I want to learn/do. Here is a selection from my list:

• Bowl above a 200 (I'm working on breaking 100 now!!!)
  
• Swim with sharks
  
• Learn Spanish 
  
• Go hang gliding
  
• Learn to play tennis 
  
• Run a marathon
  
• Be a guest on a talk show 
  
• Learn how to change the oil in my car
  
• Travel to all 50 states, and 6 continents (of the 7-- excluding Antarctica)

 Does anyone else have a list? If so, I would love to hear about it!   

Picture Post!

I imagine Marina will update this with things of more substance, but for the time being, I'm posting some photos of our recent activities!

Trip to the Cincinnati Zoo

At the sign at the front (as opposed to the back?)

I wish I was a parsel tongue. Mr. Burmese here would've had a heyday.

I imagine the Cheetah was not happy with being disturbed for a quick photo-op.

ROAR.

Day Trip to Kirtland

Nicely framed shot. We are not in it. We looked GREAT, trust us.

The Newell K. Whitney store. Pretty neat history here.

Trip to the Wright Patterson Air Force Base Museum


Some how "BOOM" doesn't quite do this justice. Zoom in for an idea of what I'm talking about.

In this hangar there were quite a few amazing planes. This is a dim shot of an SR-71 Blackbird. Absolutely amazing history.


Murphy's Law explained.

And last but not least, a candid of Fletcher looking off into his future of sleeping and eating.

Rockin' the Beard

November 25, 2008 - Day 38 of ye olde beard. My face is warm, fuzzy and happy. Like a blanket.














*Note - Steve wrote this. Not Marina. Although, he was tempted to write it under her username. Move along.

The newest member of our family

We adopted the newest member of our family today! He is three years old, and absolutely adorable! His name happens to be Fletcher (he was already named that!!!)

And yes, Fletcher is a dog! But shhh! He doesn't know-- he thinks he's a baby!
The only question remains-- what the heck kind of dog is he??? We will take any suggestions/guesses/etc.

499 Hours and 8 Minutes Later...

It's been awhile since our last post! We've had a lot of fun and stuff since then. I know Marina wants to write about it all, so I'm not going to steal her thunder. UNLESS she doesn't post in 1 day. Consider yourself warned, wife! Post upon thine blog!


EDIT -- Ok, I'm just kidding. But I was bored, and it was fun to write. I rest my case.

My new favorite sport...

I have a new favorite sport. What is that, you might ask? Garage Sale-ing! 

Now, some of you may not recognize it as a sport. This is unfortunate I say. It requires skill, determination, and hard work.  

How else would I have gotten 5 pairs of really cute shoes for $2.00. That is $.40 per pair. Skills.

How else would we have gotten Steve an apple laptop circa 1991 for $1, and looked on eBay and seen the same laptops selling for over $300? Skills. 

If you do not possess these skills, I ask you, nay, I beg you, hone them. They are useful skills, and it is a very useful sport.

Handbag Giveaway!!

Do you love handbags?? Thanks to another friend's blog, I found a giveaway where they are giving away a handbag every hour for 24 hours on October 15th!!  How cool is that? Its worth a shot, huh? handbagplanet.com Check it out!  I had such a hard time deciding which I liked best!